Well can’t complain about the view from the hot tub recently. How cozy is that on a winter’s evening!
Moody winters
Love the moods that you get here in the winter months! Makes you just want to light a fire and be cozy in the house.
Beautiful Winter
Not bad for a bedroom window view!
Trees for good
This year we decided to plant some trees, so any new guests may notice about five hundred of them in our field next to the house. The Woodland trust helped supply them and managed to get a wide selection of native varieties. We’ve called it Murph’s wood after our late father, as shown by the very hand made sign!
As well as looking nice our trees should on average remove about five tonnes of CO2 a year from the atmosphere. We estimate the house emits just over three tonnes of CO2 a year, making us a better than neutral business.
But that’s not a fair and realistic comparison, cleaners, gardeners and guests are driving to the house each week, and we estimate that creates about six tonnes of CO2. So for us a truer goal is to offset around about nine tonnes of CO2 each year. Based on that we will be looking to do some more planting in the next season!
Hitting the big time with Herefordshire Living!
So, a couple of months ago, we had an unexpected phone call from someone at a lifestyle magazine called Herefordshire Living. They had seen our website and were interested in doing an article based upon the interior design at the house.
Fast forward and here we are in the December issue!
For the original version, check pages 42-44 here
Cold and wet outside....
Love days like today at the house, cold and wet outside but lovely and cosy inside as I wait for the next arrivals.
These are so cool...
There are lots of them around the grounds at the house this year and they look amazing
Next weeks guests
Next week’s guests arrived early but were really eager to get into the house
Summery Summer evenings
These late nights and some lovely weather are just what the Dr ordered. There really are some beautiful places if you look hard enough
First Snow
Well the first snow of 2019 has fallen at the Old Vicarage. The mountains have been looking white for a few days though.
A light dusting